Thales quotes
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“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
-- ThalesSource : "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.
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“Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.”
-- ThalesSource : "Business Management Controls: A Guide". P. 55. Book by John Kyriazoglou, 2012.
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“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
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“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
-- ThalesSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.
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“[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.”
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“I did not become a father because I am fond of children.”
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“There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.”
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“A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.”
-- ThalesSource : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,
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“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”
-- ThalesSource : "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.
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“Hope is the most universal of human possessions.”
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“As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.”
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“What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.”
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“I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.”
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“Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.”
-- ThalesSource : "he Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,
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“All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.”
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“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”
-- ThalesSource : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, I, 35, 1925.
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“We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air”
-- Thales
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